Coutinho is better, but in many aspects it's close if Keita plays like he can, namely dribbling and to some extent passing. What's important though is Keita is definitely the better CM, where Coutinho is much more suited to coming off the left.

I think hes only playing the 4-2-3-1 in games that we're going to have the majority of possession, because we don't have the same opportunity to create chances from pressing so we need the creative 10. We'll still use the 4-3-3 for our top 6 games, and our European games, it's definitely still in our plan since Klopp said recently Fabinho is ready for the 4-3-3

We've really missed those driving runs since Ox got injured. I think once everybody is back fit and fighting, our best midfield will be Fabinho, Keita and Ox. Fabinho putting in 8 tackles/interceptions a game, with Keita shuttling and Ox to drive everyone forward.

A lot more of what he showed at Leipzig today. When he played for them, it seemed at times like his teammates were a bit distanced from his approach to the game and his role was limited by their inability to predict his actions. Some of that is seen here, too, but it will definitely click. Klopp already mentioned that the players need to make more use of him. Once the others know Keita and he knows them, it will be seamless from his feet to theirs

Not to get on that Henderson back-pass-train, but check out the play at 33 seconds in. Keita does all that to get him the ball with ample space and time, and he one-times it back while he could have easily split two defenders up the pitch. Like I said, not trying to get on any train, depending on the "feel" of the game at that point, it could be better to slow down play.

Naby is good at tracking back but he’s even better at driving the ball forward. With us now being at a slight disadvantage defensively, it would make sense having someone in midfield pushing on creating the offensive opportunities to get ahead

Keita will be our main attacking midfielder if he carries on like this. Fabinho is no doubt our best ball winner. Gini is good on the ball, but Hendo has a way better passing range, not to mention his organisational and leadership skills are very valuable on the pitch. It'll be a close one.

Because while he was good in possession his pressing was quite poor. There were multiple times where the front pressed up and he didn't meaning we could passed through quite easily, or he'd press up when the rest of the team didn't leaving space in CM so playing one of our other midfielders gave the midfield more defensive competence. He seems to have fixed that from his performance Vs Burnley.

It wasn't a big focus because our midfield balance was off. Against Everton and now Burnley our pressing has come back, a lot of our best chances in both games were due to pressing the opponent to turn the ball over high up the pitch. We didn't let Burnley build at all yesterday because of our pressing.

And now we have to wait at least another month probably to see the best out of him because he hasn't had the time on the pitch with our starting eleven to develop understanding and chemistry with them.

Keita adapting is still better than Gini and Milner, he shouldn't have been dropped.

Keita has had plenty of time adapting and playing with our players when training.

he started yesterday and had his best game for us, not a lot for comparison, still, that was one of the finest midfield performance I've seen from one of our players in a long time (since Coutinho) - in the sense his creativity, dribbling, transcending the opponents, etc etc .

he's gonna play regularly now, and towards the latter half we'll hopefully see Keita and Fab in midfield with 4 attackers ahead..

or Fab and Gini/Milly/Hendo with Keita free ahead and the magnificent 3 up top..

You can only accomplish so much with training. If training translated to matches that much, Moreno would be a world-beater according to what Klopp has said about him in the past. But he's not, because it's different.

Keitas performance was the single best individual midfield performance this season, easily. It's just frustrating to wait until fuckin December to see that from him when everybody could see that the guy dripped talent from his first game starting for us and then he got dropped and subsequently injured. He shouldn't be still adapting in December, at this point in the season we ideally should have already had installed Fabinho and Keita as our midfield starters weeks ago.